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Gaza And United Nations Veto Power

Jun 10, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Dan Becker

Above photo: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield voting against Algeria’s ceasefire in Gaza resolution on Feb. 20. UN Photo/Manuel Elías. With an eye on future U.N. Security Council resolutions concerning Gaza, a possible mechanism in the U.N. Charter to force the U.S. to abstain from voting. In the United Nations Charter, the very sentence that establishes the Security Council’s permanent-five veto power ends — surprisingly — in these nine words: “. . .
The UN Optimist Promoting the Summit of the Future

Jun 5, 2024 | passblue.com | Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Arthur Bassas |Dan Becker |Richard Ponzio

With the Summit of the Future now a mere three months away, opinions about its chances to produce meaningful change for the United Nations if not the world are extremely mixed. The promised documents related to the summit - the Pact for the Future, Digital Global Compact and Declaration on Future Generations - are running through their second major draft reviews, while time is running out.
Week Ending May 31

May 31, 2024 | passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Dan Becker |Clair MacDougall |Maggie Dwyer |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss

Welcome to This Week @UN: Peacekeeping; P5 veto; decriminalizing sex work. Plus: Cyprus; Gaza; unemployment; Iran; Iraq; Trump. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.* Our #1 story this week: Not So Fast: Is the P5 Veto Truly Impervious? * #1 for the month: Summit of the Future: A Historical Pivot or Mere Footnote? * Listen up with UNSCripted, our original podcast episodes, covering Security Council presidencies plus our three-part series on the founding of the UN Charter.
Is the P5 Veto Truly Impervious?

May 28, 2024 | passblue.com | Dan Becker |Dulcie Leimbach |Maria Luisa Gambale |Maya Linstrum-Newman |Nadine Gloss |Dawn Clancy

In the United Nations Charter, the very sentence that establishes the Security Council's permanent-five veto power ends - surprisingly - in these nine words: ". . . a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting."Let's allow the phrase to sink in for a moment before acknowledging that there is indeed a host of conditions, requirements, litmus tests and hoops to jump through before the phrase can be invoked and applied to a resolution.
Mastering LLMs: A Conference For Developers & Data Scientists

May 11, 2024 | maven.com | Dan Becker |Hamel Husain

New·Cohort-based CourseAn online conference for everything LLMs.New·Cohort-based CourseAn online conference for everything LLMs.This course is popular130 people enrolled last week. Course overviewNote: Registration is paused and will reopen on June 2. The original course registration included compute credits on several platforms. Registrations after reopening will not include compute credits, but they will include access to all videos, materials and the Discord community.
Small Countries Are Crucial for the UN's Long-Term Survival, and Singapore Leads the Way

Feb 27, 2024 | passblue.com | Maria Luisa Gambale |Ian Martin |Dan Becker |Dawn Clancy |Arthur Bassas

As intense negotiations begin on the Pact for the Future - the highly anticipated outcome document to crown the Summit of the Future at the United Nations in September - long-term restructuring plans are playing out in constant tension with countless short-term emergencies.
The Key to Security Council Reform Is Fewer Permanent Members, Not More

Feb 26, 2024 | passblue.com | ian martin |Marissa Conway |Dan Becker |Dawn Clancy |Arthur Bassas

As the United Nations approaches its Summit of the Future in September, the anger of under-represented regions is compelling stronger statements of commitment to reforming the Security Council.
Week Ending Feb. 23

Feb 23, 2024 | passblue.com | Arthur Bassas |Marissa Conway |Dan Becker |Dawn Clancy |Mona Khalil

Welcome to This Week @UN : Savoring the UN Charter; aid cuts harm women; prosecuting Putin.
It's Now or Never for Prosecuting Putin

Feb 21, 2024 | passblue.com | Dawn Clancy |Mona Khalil |Marissa Conway |Arthur Bassas |Dan Becker |Fawzia Koofi

As the United Nations marks the second year of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine this week, big-power politics are still blocking the creation of an international special tribunal to prosecute the crime of aggression by Russia's top leaders for their deadly actions against their neighbor. The resistance to such a court could weaken the backbone of international law and the ideal of a rules-based world order, leading to a "real tragedy," as one expert put it.
A Question of Faith, Our Final Podcast Episode

Feb 19, 2024 | passblue.com | Dan Becker |Richard Ponzio |Banjo Damilola |Dawn Clancy |Jessica Le Masurier |Dulcie Leimbach

"The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."SAN FRANCISCO - Our third and final episode of the podcast series "Act of Creation" is ready for your ears. It's a fitting end to a great journey. Episode 1 looks at the years leading up to the famous San Francisco conference of 1945, when the UN Charter was signed and the UN was born; the episode then moves up to the conference's opening day on April 25.